Utrecht University Rankings 2025
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- UU Ranking Highlights
- UU University Ranking
- UU Course Ranking
- UU US News & World Report Ranking 2024
- UU QS Ranking 2025
- UU THE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2023
- UU ARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
UURanking Highlights
Renowned for its academic excellence and diverse campus community, Utrecht University has consistently secured top global university rankings. Offering a wide array of courses across various fields and disciplines for its students, Utrecht University stands out and has an impressive global ranking, and is surely a world-class education place for international students.
Rated A+ by Shiksha Grading, Utrecht University is also rated A+ for M.A.. Looking at the Shiksha Grading by Courses, most of the Utrecht University courses are in the range of A+ and C++ grades.
Although there are multiple grading platforms accessible for students to check university rankings, what makes Shiksha Grading stand out is that Shiksha uses the aggregate of all the publicly available university and course rankings from top-ranking publishers and maps it into nine buckets, namely A++, A+, A, B++, B+, B, C++, C+, C. With this method, courses are graded on the basis of their availability at the college in a particular country and universities are graded by the countries.
Moving on, according to 'University Ranking' category of QS 2025, Utrecht University ranks #105, which is improving in comparison to its last year’s ranking, i.e., #107 in 2024. Utrecht University also ranks #66 in THE 'University Ranking' category 2023. As compared to the last year, Utrecht University witnessed an improving trend in its THE (Times Higher Education) ranking which stood at #69 in 2022.
Check out more details on Utrecht University ranking in the below content.
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#2QS Ranking
#40US News Ranking
#46ARWU Ranking
#55THE Ranking
#66UUCourse Ranking
Utrecht University ranks well for its Pharmacy & Pharmacology, Biological Sciences, Psychology, and Law courses. In the previous years, Utrecht University has been ranked among the top universities in the world for Pharmacy & Pharmacology by QS. As per the QS, Utrecht University ranks at #28 in 2024 for its Pharmacy & Pharmacology courses. In 2023, this ranking stood at #25. Also, for QS Biological Sciences raking category, Utrecht University ranks at #46 position in 2024. Additionally, in THE 2023 ranking, the Utrecht University is ranked #26 for Psychology.
Apart from the global ranking bodies, Shiksha has also graded Utrecht University streams, such as Science, Mass Communication & Media, and Humanities & Social Sciences with A+, A, and A grades. The presence of multiple rankings online can prove to be overwhelming to students looking to study abroad. Hence, Shiksha Study Abroad has launched Shiksha Grading. With it, students will no longer be required to check multiple ranking organisations to know about the performance of a particular university. Just checking Shiksha rating will suffice.
More details around Utrecht University courses and subject rankings are detailed in the below article.
UUUS News & World Report Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Global Universities | 48 | 44 | 46 |
UUQS Ranking 2025
Ranked by | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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Europe | – / – | 41 | 40 |
World University | 112 | 107 | 105 |
Accounting and Finance | 251 | 251 | – / – |
Architecture and Built Environment | – / – | 101 | – / – |
Art and Design | 101 | – / – | – / – |
Biological Sciences | 47 | 46 | – / – |
Communication and Media Studies | 51 | 51 | – / – |
Engineering and Technology | 249 | 249 | – / – |
Law and Legal Studies | 51 | 56 | – / – |
Mathematics | 151 | 151 | – / – |
Mechanical Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering | – / – | 301 | – / – |
Medicine | 51 | 58 | – / – |
Nursing | 51 | 51 | – / – |
Pharmacy and Pharmacology | 25 | 28 | – / – |
Physics and Astronomy | 101 | 143 | – / – |
Politics | 51 | 101 | – / – |
Sociology | 42 | 46 | – / – |
UUTHE (Times Higher Education) Ranking 2023
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 |
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University | – / – | 66 |
Arts and Humanities | 62 | 53 |
Clinical and Health | 76 | 67 |
Law | 54 | 36 |
Life Sciences | 47 | 63 |
PG Computer Science | 201 | 201 |
Psychology | 35 | 26 |
UUARWU (Shanghai Ranking) Ranking 2024
Ranked by | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Universities | 54 | 52 | 55 |
Law | 76 | 51 | – / – |
Mathematics | – / – | 301 | – / – |
Nursing | 101 | 101 | – / – |
Physics | 76 | 101 | – / – |
Political Sciences | 76 | 51 | – / – |
Sociology | 31 | 26 | – / – |
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Here's a summary of the application procedure for a bachelor's programme at Utrecht University:
Choose your bachelor's programme: Select your preferred programme and review the entry criteria.
Check the deadlines: Verify the application deadlines for your program.
Prepare your documents: Collect all re
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Utrecht University application fee is €100 (Around INR 8,900). The application fee is non-refundable. To apply to this university, the applicants are required to apply via the university specific application link. Here are some of the documents required to apply:
- Academic transcripts of previous educ
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Here is the list of a few of famous people who have studied at UU:
Names | Designation |
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René Descartes | French Philosopher, Scientist, and Mathematician |
Princess Irene of the Netherlands | Princess |
Jan Terlouw | Politician, Physicist, and Author |
Douglas Rushkoff | Media Theorist, Writer, Columnist, etc. |
Rutger Bregman | Historian and Author |
Linda Wagenmakers | Dutch singer and Voice actress |
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Utrecht University has more than 150 student organizations in different areas. The areas of these student organizations are:
- Study and faculty
- Social activities
- Sport
- Career oriented
- International
- Multi-cultural
- Religion
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